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SALT LAKE CITY — Every January, thousands of young girls don their blue, brown or green uniforms and pitch their goods to family, friends and neighbors.
While the cookies have become an anxiously anticipated treat for communities, the sweets come from a long-standing tradition of teaching girls about work and finance while raising money for activities and camps. In 2012, Utahns purchased 1.6 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, the highest per-girl average sales in the nation, with an average of 335 boxes sold per Girl Scout.
Since the 1950s, Trefoils, Do-si-dos and Thin Mints have been staples on the Girl Scout cookie order sheet. Samoas, filled with caramel and coconut, have stuck around since the 1970s, along with Tagalongs, which were introduced in 1976.
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As long as Girl Scouts have been around, girls have been financing troop activities with cookie sales. In the tradition’s first year – 1917 – however, girls and their mothers baked the cookies instead of the licensed commercial bakers that handle the baking now.
Early Girl Scout cookies were just simple sugar cookies packaged in wax paper bags and sold door to door for 25 to 35 cents a dozen.
This year, eight cookies – Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Do-si-dos, Savannah Smiles, Dulce de Lece and Thank U Berry Munch – will grace the order sheet. Which ones will you choose? Cast your vote for your favorites.
Special flavors since 1974:
1974-1976
Van’Chos
1988-1978
Granola
1979-1981
Van’Chos
1981-1983
Van’Chos
Chocolate Chunk
1983-1984
Medallions
Chocolate Chunk
1984-1985
Juliettes
Chocolate Chunk
1985-1987
Pecan Shortee
Chocolate Chunk
1988-1990
Echo
Chocolate Chunk
1990-1991
Chalet Cremes
Trailmix
1991-1993
Chalet Cremes
Golden Nut Clusters
1993-1995
Chalet Creme
Juliettes
Snaps
1995-1996
Reduced Fat Chalet Creme
Juliettes
Snaps
1996-1997
Sugar Free Chalet Creme
Striped Chocolate Chips
Snaps
1997-2000Apple Cinnamon
Striped Chocolate Chip
Lemon Drops
2000-2001
Apple Cinnamon
Aloha Chips
Lemon Drops
2001-2003
Ole’ Ole’
Aloha Chips
All Abouts
2003-2005
Lemon Coolers
Double Dutch
All Abouts
2005- 2006
Lemon Coolers
Cafe Cookies
All Abouts
2006- 2007
Sugar Free Little Brownies
Cafe Cookies
All Abouts
2007- 2008
Lemon Chalet Cremes
Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
All Abouts
2008- 2009
Dulche de Leche
Lemon Chalet Cremes
Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
2009- 2010
Lemon Chalet Cremes
Thank U Berry Much
Dulche de Leche
2010- 2011
Lemon Chalet Cremes
Thank U Berry Much
Dulche de Leche
